Example sentences of "[verb] me her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eleanor told me her late father was Principal of Brigston . |
| 2 | She had a room to herself , and showed me her built-in dressing-table , wardrobe , and cupboards . |
| 3 | Mrs MacKenzie proudly showed me her minuscule immaculate palace , the walls almost thicker than the passageway . |
| 4 | ‘ Ellen , will you keep a secret for me ? ’ she asked in the end , giving me her sweetest smile . |
| 5 | And she kissed me , and called me her dear Blanche , and said I knew she was a good girl , and very strong , and not foolish . |
| 6 | She carried a pair of sun glasses in her left hand and offered me her right hand , smiling as she shook mine . |
| 7 | ‘ On Thursday nights my wife and I play a game of cards , and on Sundays she reads me her weekly letter from her mother . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't tell me her old man 's a copper and this is one of his mates warning me off . |
| 9 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 10 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 11 | She insisted on telling me her entire life story , regardless of whether I wanted to listen or not . ’ |
| 12 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 13 | Recently my grandmother sadly passed away leaving me her whole collection of The Artist magazines . |